"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "John Francis" > >> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:02:56PM -0600, William Robb wrote: >>> >>> Have you heard any more about the direct film to digital things where the >>> film doesn't make it out alive? >> >> I haven't heard hide nor hair of it since Applied Science Fiction >> was bought by Kodak a couple of years ago. Nowadays they seem to >> be concentrating on producing Photoshop plugins, so I suspect that >> we'll never see this as a product. > >I find that to be a relief on several levels.
Kodak bought the dry-process-film-to-digital technology from ASF a couple of years ago. They announced a couple of months ago that they are no longer pursuing it and will not be bringing the intended product (a DIY film developing kiosk) to market. The reason given was that current and projected (declining) levels of film use made it economically non-viable. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
